Monday, July 1, 2013
Chicago to London to Edinburgh to Reykjavik to somewhere to Chicago?
I'm again looking at all options to get us the most bang for our buck while getting to see some wicked cool stuff. I haven't figured out the getting to London thing, but we can get from London to Edinburg via train for $85 and then from Edinburg (Glasgow) to Reykjavik for $196 via plane. Edinburgh seems pretty cool. I'm not sure if you've checked it out yet. Also, not sure if we are set on getting to Ireland. It seems difficult to get to even though it's so close to Britain.
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I have not checked out Scotland. I'm sure it's cool. I hadn't really expanded our current itinerary.
ReplyDeleteWe can get to Iceland from London for about $200, right?
We do not have to go to Ireland.
I think Iceland is what complicates things. It's hard to combo that with anything else in Europe. It'd be easier to combo with some where in North America.
We could easily fly round trip to London, get a train pass, and travel all over England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.
If we are set on doing Iceland, which I think we are, I think we stick to London and Reykjavik. We can get to Iceland from other cities in the States or Canada, but I don't think that either of us wants this trip to be about visiting that city as well (e.g. Boston). The problem with London is that my miles are no good during the time period we want to travel. We can book roundtrip for $1000 during the time we want to travel and then roundtrip to Reykjavik from London for the $$ amount you found. If we want to do some train travel around London that's cool, but we don't need to do Ireland or Scotland or other parts of the UK while we are there. That's what complicates it.
ReplyDeleteWe can use your miles. It's only a few days difference and saves us a lot of money.
DeleteWe can probably do London and Iceland. I guess my feeling is you could do 10 days in the UK or you could do 10 days in Iceland, but trying to do both in 14 days is kind of cutting them both short. There's just so much travel time involved.
It would be easier if you could fly from Dublin to/from Reykjavik, but you can't. Would have to connect through London.
It would also help if you could fly direct from Chicago to Reykjavik, but you can't.
So we have to "hub" somewhere.
It's only another flight to get to Dublin, but it probably doesn't make sense to do it. I told you, it's "mom angst" making me want to do it. No need to force it to happen if it isn't meant to be. I already don't really like having to fly to London, then back to Reykjavik, then back to London. Adding in another flight doesn't make sense. If we had time to train train travel, we could make it happen, but we don't.
We could potentially do something like Chicago-London-Reykjavik-Glasgow-London (via train)-Chicago if we want to see the English countryside, since we can fly Reykjavik to Glasgow but not Reykjavik to Dublin.
ReplyDeleteJust spend a day or two in Glasgow/Edinborough.
Or, we could just do 5-7 days in Reykjavik and 5-7 days in London. That would give us time to try and see more of Iceland, like Thorsmork, or do that day trip to Greenland.
From London, we could take a train to the countryside. Spend a night in Dublin if we really want to. Or do a day trip to Paris. I think you can get there in like 2 hours via the Chunnel.
I wouldn't mind seeing Stonehenge if we make it outside London, cause I'm a huge nerd like that.
Bonus if we can see Hadrian's Wall. I bet you have NO idea what that is.
You think I don't know Hadrian's Wall? You're right. I'm not truly sure what Stonehenge is if I'm being completely honest with you.
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